Series 1 contains documents relating to the internal procedures and finances of Murder Victims' Families for reconciliation. While there are a few documents that provide evidence of how the organization was set up, the majority of documents focus on hiring, day to day finances, and committee meetings. There are also materials related to strategic planning and the creation of by-laws and organizational procedure. Although the series contains materials from 1977 to 2005, the bulk of the material is from 1996 to 2004. Contained in this series are meeting agendas, meeting minutes, meeting summaries, correspondence, annual reports, ballots, evaluation forms, applications, newsletters, fliers, budgets, financial reports, manuals, by-laws, pamphlets, drafts, notes, reports, contracts, forms, resumes, proofs, floppy disks, and cassettes.

Series 2 contains the internal and external communications of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation. These communications deal with administrative and committee work, finances, donor relations, event planning, outreach, victim support, and prisoner experiences. Along with the letters and memos sent by the organizations' members, this series also contains handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, floppy disks, zip disks, cassettes, dvds, and MVFR publications as well as correspondence that Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation received. When present, file names assigned by the organization were preserved.